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...absolutely true that Osama bin Laden is a moral pip-squeak. But without this one individual, Sept. 11 would have been just another day and the admirable Mayor Giuliani would not have had the opportunity to remove the tarnish from his image. And without bin Laden, Americans would still be questioning the legitimacy of the Bush presidency. JONATHAN SIMONS Woodland Hills, Calif...
...crippling her presidency. She has been "tentative in pursuing reforms," says one of her congressional opponents, Senator Rodolfo Biazon. Arroyo is fearful, he believes, of upsetting her already rankled ex-backers. One of those is Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken prelate who has wielded the church's immense moral authority to pummel Presidents into line for almost two decades. Earlier this month, Sin released an ominous statement declaring the state of politics was "far from ideal"; it didn't directly point the finger at MalacaNang, but the seemingly calculated ambiguity allowed others to do so. The favorite charge...
...SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership ? Historians rank every president from Washington to Clinton on such categories as crisis leadership, international relations and moral authority...
...point. Senate Democrats will have to make the most of their nominal moral advantage of having been out of power until very recently, because the longer the investigations into Enron, Andersen and supposed supervillain Lay go on, the wider the conclusions are likely to spread the guilt. For all the scolding of Enron's accounting, of its retirement plan, of its executive perks and funny habit of not paying much in the way of taxes the past five years, an early glance suggests that congressional investigators will find an awful lot of it to be perfectly legal...
...initiatives to break the logjam will be reinforced by this week's conference in Egypt between senior Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian rabbis, imams and priests, which resulted in a joint declaration that condemned "killing innocents in the name of God" and committed the signatories "to throw their moral weight behind attempts to stop the violence." Participants included Israeli and Palestinian cabinet members, and the head of Islam's most prestigious university, Cairo's Al Azhar...